Do exercise physiologists use Polar chest straps for scientific studies? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on December 1, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Yes, they do, as for instance exercise physiologist Dr. Evan Matthews from Montclair State University near New York:

Evan Matthews, PhD, explaining how to use a Polar E600 chest strap heart rate monitor (Polar T31 type heart rate monitor) to measure heart rate

Matthews uses the Polar E600 chest strap heart rate monitor (Polar T31 type heart rate monitor) to measure heart rate, which is also used for scientific studies:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=polar+t31+heart+rate+monitor&oq=polar+t31

But we do not know if Dr. Evan Matthews uses the Polar H10 chest strap as a gold standard device for RR interval assessments if intense activities with strong body movements are investigated as recommended in following paper of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sports in Magglingen which was partly funded by Polar:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219/